Capital residents are less likely to be obese and more likely to bike or walk to work or take public transportation to work.
But that still amounted to less than 1% of Americans reporting in 2009 that they used bicycles as their primary mode of transportation to work, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
If she stops driving, she will have access to transportation without having to work at it.
Is public transportation or biking to work an option where you live?
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We need to pass this transportation bill and put people to work rebuilding America.
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He pledged that the airline would continue to work with the federal Transportation Security Administration to quickly implement new security measures promptly.
The proposal runs through 2016 because the Department of Transportation only has the authority to work ahead through that date.
The city is celebrating the three-year mark by showcasing the event's centerpiece -- the under-construction Olympic Park -- and highlighting the progress made on everything from building work to transportation to getting sponsorship money.
It also extended COBRA so that folks who've lost their jobs don't lose their health insurance, and it extended financing for small businesses, and makes it possible for 2, 000 furloughed transportation workers to go back to work.
Our roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, dams, ports, trains and mass transportation systems also work together to ensure that in this vast land of more than 300 million people we can produce more and have a better quality of life.
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We know our country can do better -- which is why I proposed a "Fix-It-First" program earlier this year to put people to work on our most pressing transportation projects.
We are encouraged by the progress made thus far and opportunities abound for us to work with potential partners to help the country improve its power generation and transportation infrastructure in addition to what we have right now.
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One hurdle for his airline is that many New York area crew members use public transportation, such as the subway, to get to work.
And across Nevada, there are dozens of transportation projects and energy projects and construction projects putting people to work doing the work that America needs done.
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With no public transportation, a steady stream of commuters can be seen walking to work over bridges as the roads are gridlocked.
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This could particularly apply to companies that work in areas such as education, transportation and health care.
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President Obama and the Department of Transportation are doing what we can to connect the men and women who need work with the work America needs to get done.
Major work still needs to be completed and local voters will decide in July whether to raise taxes to pay for the work and a lengthy list of other transportation projects.
Building intelligence into a car so that it could drive itself safely will require a significant engineering work on the car and changes to how we design the transportation infrastructure.
It also supported the report's recommendations to "enhance" ways in which the council's planning and transportation services work together in the future.
Transportation workers and management need to learn to minimize fatigue, starting with adoption of safer work schedules that provide enough time for sleep each day.
So today we're proposing more support for caregivers by providing counseling, training, help with transportation, and temporary respite care when they just need a break or they have to work -- which most all of them do.
Monday represented the culmination of years of work by Mr. Bloomberg and his transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, to promote the use of bicycles in the city.
The mayor said subway traffic and other forms of public transportation were "almost back to normal, " but street traffic remained a mess as more commuters returned to work and some entrances to the city, like the Holland Tunnel and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, remained closed.
In fact, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has launched a new partnership with Spelman College to train women engineers and help put them to work rebuilding our highways and our infrastructure.
Transportation in this case is not simply social and interactions but what we, as an organization, allow our employees to work on, how we facilitate and accelerate that productivity.
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